The picture marked producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.'s return to production after a ten-year hiatus according to an article published in the 8th September 1982 issue of show-business trade-paper 'Variety'. The last picture he had produced had been Come Back Charleston Blue (1972) though apparently in between he had served as an uncredited executive producer on The Visitor (1979).
''Seven real seals play the two seal characters in the story'' according to a review by Janet Maslin in 'The New York Times' newspaper.
This film's closing credits state: "The producer wishes to thank the following for their valuable assistance: Province of British Columbia Ministry of Tourism, Film Production Office; Beacher Bay Indian Band; The Greater Vancouver Regional District; Tom Carr, Pachena Point Lighthouse".
This picture's closing credits declare that the production was: "Filmed on location in the Aleutian Islands and British Columbia, Canada."
The movie's press kit claims that producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. acquired the motion picture rights the film's source novel ''A River Ran Out of Eden'' (1962) by Donald G. Payne (aka James Vance Marshall) almost two decades or twenty years earlier. It claims that Goldwyn could not decide on a viable adaptation.